# Button-Based Situla

- Date: 900–700 BCE
- Medium: bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
- Classification: Metalwork
- Dimensions: Diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
- Culture: Iran, Luristan
- Credit line: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.35.1)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.35.1/1960.35.1_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The metalworkers of Luristan provided the Assyrian empire with elaborate bronze ornaments and vessels. These two situla are decorated symmetrically---one with ibexes drinking from an overflowing water jar; the other, with sphinxes.